I just started the hobby in the beginning of Feb. Started a 29 with three tequila sunrise guppies and three african dwarf frogs.
Sadly, I didn't know much about having to cycle my tank. The guppies died in a week. The frogs held on for a little more than a month. I think the frogs could have survived but I started throwing every chemical known to man in the damn tank.
Anyways, i joined a local aquarium group, learned the nitrogen cycle, been dosing my tank with Prime and Stability and started over with three creamsicle Mollies and a couple of nerite snails. Gonna give my mollies the run of the tank for another week and then get some tetras or more ADF's.
Eventually I want a nice vibrant community tank with about 4-5 adf's, 6-8 schooling fish (neons, cardinals or zebras) and 6 mollies. Might throw in a couple of corys to add to the clean up crew.
What are y'all working with? ______________________________________________________________________________
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 81925 posts
Thu Mar-30-23 09:46 AM
1. "Had a friend give me an aquarium in college" In response to Reply # 0
she was like “take that shit”
so I opened it and was confused as a muhhfukka. What type of tank is this? ohhhhh shit. Its a fucking coffee table fish tank!!! had a light under it and rocks that glowed. Man, house parties looks so fucking dope with a DJ playing and that tank behind him on some pimp shit
my wife (gf at the time) bought some koi fish, we kept buying more exotic ones. Had this all white koi that was lovely.
Then the tank got stank.. real murky. Koi were too big and the pump was struggling. I put them in a bucket and replaced ALL the water. Which was the wrong thing to do.
Put them all back in the tank and watched them all die a quick violent shock death. My wife and I were fucking crushed. We didn’t know what to do. Only one sprang back from death and survived but it was so bad I never tried again after losing that last fish
tl/dr
nah.. not anymore. Maybe I’ll try again but
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
Getting to know all the do's and dont's can be crushing.
I LOVED my freakin' frogs. When I went back to the store last week I looked at their current stock of frogs and it just wasn't the same.
If your tank got murky, probably needed the gravel or sand or whatever you had in there vaccumed. And when you change water, gotta make sure you dechlorinate it and that it's the same temp as the water you took out or yeah, fish will keel over.
Kois are beautiful though. you should give it another try. ______________________________________________________________________________
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 81925 posts
Thu Mar-30-23 11:30 AM
3. "I might try again.. I love aquariums" In response to Reply # 2
went to a friends house and he had an oscar
dont even need a TV, just watch those fish
its my 50th this year, would be a dope present and we could do it up real nice this time
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
5. "my cousin had several tanks over the years." In response to Reply # 0
it was always nice watching the fish just be fish, though I was never enticed to get my own.
just seemed like a lot of work that I wasn't willing do it. I say that as a dog owner, completely realizing how much effort it takes to take care of a dog, lol.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 81925 posts
Thu Mar-30-23 01:10 PM
6. "a dog is a lot more physical maintenance " In response to Reply # 5
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
8. "We've been through like 4 tetras and a beta in the past week" In response to Reply # 0
We've got a big 30 gallon tank, a 5 gallon tank that filters through plant roots and a tiny 1 gallon tank. Feeding the fish is usually my wife's responsibility but she got herself quarantined and I didn't remember to feed the fish in the smaller tanks for about 3 days. By that point, the beta in the smallest tank and one of the 2 tetras in the middle tank were gone. I remembered the fish in the big tank bc he's been my responsibility before but I've rarely dealt with the small fish so it slipped my mind.
Well we replace the beta and the tetra but my wife cleans out the middle tank bc it was past due for a cleaning. Two days later, the other original tetra is gone.
So my wife goes and gets a 2nd new tetra from the store and the new one passes away within 3 days. She at least gets a refund on it and gets the 3rd new tetra. Then this morning, I notice that the 1st new tetra has croaked too.
So at this point, I told my wife we need to figure out what's up before getting another fish. I'm doing some research on the fish we do have and I'm realizing the beta really needs more space and they recommend having a school for 5+ tetras..... I'm really trying to keep myself from getting deep into this bc I definitely watched several hours of this YouTube channel during Covid lockdowns https://www.youtube.com/@FootheFlowerhorn